Chapter 98: Going up the mountain to explore the way

This is good news. If we can keep a relative balance between Canteen One and Canteen Two, our prey sales channels will be more stable. The last suggestion was actually a win-win solution for all three parties. I didn’t expect it to work.

“That’s great! You won’t be under so much pressure, and the prey I catch will be more stable in terms of digestion! That’s great!
I also have good news for you. When the snow gets a little bit firmer, our hunting team will consider going into the mountains to hunt. By then, we may be able to catch more prey such as roe deer and wild boars!” Yue Feng smiled and nodded repeatedly.

“Bought a gun?”

“Well! I just got a new 56. If I’m lucky, I can knock down not only roe deer and wild boars, but also blind bears!” Yue Feng said confidently.

“Okay, if you find some in-demand game ingredients like bear paws, just send them to me. I’ll definitely pay a high price for them!”

“Okay! It’s settled then!”

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After a brief exchange, Yue Feng counted and delivered all the game for today. Then he said goodbye, left the second canteen, and headed straight for the supply and marketing cooperative.

Thinking about building a greenhouse under the eaves of the main house with plastic sheeting, Yue Feng soon came to the supply and marketing cooperative.

It’s 6:22 in the evening, eight minutes before the end of the workday.

The final preparations before closing were being made behind the counter. When the clerk heard someone coming in, he looked up.

“Oh, it’s you!” After seeing clearly that the person coming was Yue Feng, Li Li took the initiative to greet him.

“Hello, comrade! Our supply and marketing cooperative has plastic sheeting, right? If so, please help me get some!” Yue Feng nodded at the other party and politely stated his request.

“There is plastic sheeting, but you need a ticket! Do you have your ticket?”

“I have it! I plan to pull it to a length of about 20 meters. Do you think the tickets are enough?”

“Ah? You need so many? You’re three meters short of the tickets!” Li Liqing said after counting the industrial tickets handed over by Yue Feng.

“Well, then whatever is enough is enough!”

“Wait a minute! Let me take a look!” Li Li did not rush to tear the plastic sheet off Yue Feng, but started to search in her ticket folder.

Soon, a five-cent industrial ticket was found.

“This ticket is issued by our unit. I can’t use it, so I’ll give it to you!” Li Li said very proactively.

“This… isn’t a bit bad, right? How much should I give you?”

When Yue Feng heard the salesperson wanted to give him the industrial ticket, he was confused for a second.

Don’t say you can’t use it. In this era, supply is less than demand, and goods must be purchased with coupons. Materials are in short supply. Even if you can’t use it, you can exchange it with others for coupons that can be used. Besides, there are many things that can be bought with this industrial coupon, so there is no reason why you can’t use it.

“It’s free, just take it and use it!” Li Li waved her hands repeatedly.

“Then I’ll make a big profit from you!” Yue Feng said with a smile without hesitating too much.

“When you have mountain products to sell, come and help me complete some purchasing tasks! Didn’t I mention to you last time that the fur purchase price at our supply and marketing cooperative has been uniformly priced and standardized across the province!” Li Li continued.

Yue Feng had some impression of it and nodded: “Okay, I have some grey dog ​​bark and yellow leaf bark at home that are almost dried. Bring them over next time you go to the city!”

“Those are in short supply. This year’s acquisition plan is still a long way off! If you have them, remember to come to me! By the way, I don’t even know your name!”

“My name is Yue Feng, and I live in Xing’an Village!”

“Okay, I remember! Come on, I’ll take you to cut the plastic sheet!”

Soon, under the guidance of Li Li, Yue Feng went to the counter on the other side and cut twenty meters of plastic sheeting, rolled it into a thick roll, and tucked it under his armpit.

“Then I’ll leave first!”

“Okay, it’s snowing outside, be careful when you get home!”

Even after he walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative, Yue Feng still felt confused.

The salesmen at the supply and marketing cooperative were all very arrogant. They even offered to help by paying their own share of the bills. If Yue Feng hadn’t experienced it himself, he would never have believed it if someone else had told him about it.

Could it be that this young lady has a crush on me? That shouldn’t be the case. Judging from her hairstyle, this Li Li is married.

Since he wasn’t interested in me, I could only interpret this proactive gesture as an attempt to win over Yue Feng to sell furs at the supply and marketing cooperative and help complete the acquisition plan.

Since the purchase price is unified across the province, there won’t be much difference in price if you go to other places. I might as well bring the skins I have saved at home and exchange them for money.

The plastic sheet was fixed on the back seat with a rope, and then Yue Feng rode his bicycle towards home.

When he got home, to Yue Feng’s surprise, Xiao Tao and his son and the Zhang brothers were still there.

Everyone was busy looking for many small trees that had not been sawn off in the firewood pile behind the house, and they had almost arranged the wooden frame for the greenhouse in front of the eaves.

“The plastic sheeting has been bought!” Yue Feng called out and walked in front of everyone with the roll of sheeting.

In the Northeast, this plastic sheet is a necessity. When the weather gets cold, you must use it to seal the windows so that the wind cannot blow through easily.

Yue Feng calculated the size of the windows in the house before going out, and cut the plastic sheets with scissors according to the size. Soon Xiao Tao took a hammer and nails to nail the plastic sheets in place.

Suddenly, Yue Feng thought of a problem. Grandma Li, the neighbor behind him, hasn’t ordered windows yet.

The old woman is old, and the village office is responsible for sending people to do the job of ordering windows every year. However, the snow fell early and the temperature dropped early this year. If the windows are not sealed in time, even if the kang is heated at night, the temperature in the house will drop rapidly in the middle of the night.

Thinking of this, Yue Feng said, “Cut another three meters of plastic sheeting, and make the greenhouse in front of the eaves a little shorter!”

“What’s wrong, Xiaofeng?” Li Wentong asked.

“The windows of Grandma Li’s house haven’t been sealed yet. When we’re done, we’ll seal them for her house as well. The snow came early this year!” “Okay, Xiao Tao, go and do this job now. We have a lot of people, enough for the whole family!” When Li Wentong heard Yue Feng’s reminder, he immediately ordered Xiao Tao to do the work.

“I’ll go! Xiao Tao sometimes doesn’t pay attention to what he says. If he says something carelessly, don’t let Grandma Li feel upset!”

Yue Feng took the job personally, took the hammer and the cut plastic sheet, and went to Grandma Li’s house.

If we talk about pity, the most pitiful one is the lonely old man who has lost his breadwinner. The heavy snow in the yard has only cleared out a Y-shaped walkway leading to the toilet and the front door, and the snow in other places has piled up there without being moved.

It’s not that Grandma Li is lazy, she’s just too old and has no strength left. In the cold outdoors, she is gradually unable to handle these trivial chores.

When Yue Feng entered the north room, it was not very warm inside. Grandma Li was heating the kang next to the fire pit.

“Grandma! Let me help you order the plastic sheeting!!” Yue Feng took the initiative to say hello as he walked in.

“It’s Xiaofeng. I’m troublesome for you to work for me again! The snow fell a little early this year. I was thinking of going to the village office to look for Jianguo tomorrow!” Grandma Li hurriedly got up from the small stool.

“Just keep heating the kang, don’t worry about it! I can finish this job in a moment!”

Yue Feng quickly cleared the debris on the windowsill, then used nails and sorghum stalks to quickly seal several windows with plastic sheets.

“I’m leaving, grandma. If there’s anything missing at home, you can go to my house and find my mom!” Yue Feng said hello before leaving.

After Yue Feng returned to his own home, Grandma Li was still leaning against the gate, looking at Yue Feng’s disappearing back, and she sighed from the bottom of her heart: “The second child of the Yue family is so kind and righteous…”

When Yue Feng returned to his home, the greenhouse in the yard was almost completed. Yue Feng gave it a hand and the greenhouse was basically completed before it got dark.

In previous years, Yue Feng’s family would not have been so extravagant. Although the plastic sheet was not too expensive, each family’s share of industrial tickets was in short supply. Although building such a greenhouse would indeed make it much warmer, there was already a kang and a fire wall at home, and after sealing the windows, there was not much need to do this.

But this year is different. There are so many eagles tied up at home. If we want to keep them fat in the cold winter, this greenhouse is very necessary.

Now that the greenhouse is completed, not only will the eagles on the eagle pole under the eaves benefit, but the two untrained large eagles tied in the warehouse will also need to be moved in. Large eagles are also afraid of the cold, but they are more resistant to the cold than young eagles.

After another ten minutes of hard work, a single-layer plastic greenhouse about one and a half meters wide and more than two meters high extending from the eaves was completed. After finishing the work, Meng Yulan arranged for everyone to go into the house and get on the kang, as Yue Feng’s family would provide dinner tonight.

The outside of the house was covered in snow, and an oil lamp was on in the house. Several men were sitting cross-legged on the kang table, eating hot meals and sipping white wine from time to time. Their life was definitely comfortable.

After a few drinks, the spirits of father Yue Lei and Li Wentong also lifted. Now that the team had their first gun, it was only a matter of time before they could get the big animals down from the mountain. For a while, everyone was excited at the kang table, imagining the scene of waiting for the snow to freeze hard and then going up the mountain to hunt.

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The next two days for Yue Feng could be described as torment. It snowed again at night, and another layer of snow covered the snow that had not yet frozen solid. The north wind started to blow, and the temperature dropped sharply to minus 17 or 18 degrees Celsius.

I put on all the cotton-padded clothes and pants at home to keep warm. Every time I go out to release hawks, I need to be fully armed. Even so, after running in the snow outside for a day, my feet are numb from the cold and my eyebrows are frosty.

Although it is cold, the number of prey has not been affected in recent days. Although the harvest in the last two days is not as good as the first day after snowing, it is still much more than before.

However, when he goes out to release the hawk every day, Yue Feng is no longer too concerned about whether he catches more or less prey.

He was waiting, waiting for the drastic drop in temperature to gradually stabilize, waiting for the snow on the mountain to freeze into a crust that could be stepped on.

Finally, on the evening of the third day, when Li Wentong came back from releasing the hawk, he spoke.

“The snow on the mountain has almost frozen over! I plan to go into the mountain tomorrow! How do we arrange the personnel for our team?”

There is only one word difference between entering the mountain and going up the mountain, but the meanings are obviously different.

These hills outside the village gates are too close to the gathering area, so there are basically not many large-scale mountain animal activities. At most, you can occasionally encounter lost wild roe deer or something like that, but it is not easy to encounter wild boars and deer.

Even if there are small groups moving around occasionally, they are the smart type. If they hear human noise or smell human scent from afar, they will hide from people. Only experienced hunters or those with hunting dogs have a chance to catch them.

But going around the dozen or so mountains at the doorstep and heading deep into Changbai Mountain is another story.

Because it is usually sparsely populated, the density of wild animals here is far higher than at home. You may have a close contact with wild boars just by crossing a ridge, and the danger increases sharply.

“Dad, are you planning to go into the mountains tomorrow? Take us with you so we can gain some experience!” Xiao Tao looked up at his father and couldn’t help but say.

Li Wentong did not refuse, but looked at Yue Feng: “It’s not impossible for us to go into the mountains, but who will catch the game to be delivered to the canteen tomorrow?
“If you go into the mountains with a gun and hunt, you won’t have time to release the hawk. The hawk has never been used to the sound of gunfire. If it gets scared by the gunfire, it will be a waste of time!”

Yue Feng said: “Tomorrow, Uncle Li and I will go into the mountain to check out the area and test its depth.

Xiao Tao, Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu, you three brothers continue to go up the mountain to release hawks as usual, and try to catch more prey. The day after tomorrow, we will follow Uncle Li up the mountain together!

When the weather gets cold, the eagle’s work will be affected. When the temperature drops to minus 10 degrees Celsius, the eagle will be released every other day. When we don’t release the eagle, we will follow Uncle Li into the mountains!”

Yue Feng’s arrangement is also quite reasonable. After all, the basic situation still needs to be taken into consideration, and hunting in the mountains needs to be done step by step.

It is impossible to buy a gun today and start dragging wild boars and bears home endlessly tomorrow. Even if Yue Feng had superb hunting experience after living a reborn life, he would not dare to guarantee that he would get something when he goes up the mountain today before going out.

Livestock in the mountains are not evenly distributed. There may be no large livestock on some hills with poor objective conditions, while wild boars and roe deer can live in groups in places with good conditions suitable for wild animals to survive. Hunters have to explore and search for them bit by bit.

Xiaowen looked at Xiaowu, and the two brothers nodded and said, “We can do anything! Falconry can make a lot of money. If you need help in the mountains, then let’s go. I’m not very good at hunting, but I can still help with some physical work!”

When Xiao Tao heard Yue Feng’s arrangement, he said a little frustratedly: “Okay, I was thinking of going into the mountains with him tomorrow to study!”

As soon as the word “study” came out of Li Wen’s mouth, a bolt of lightning struck Xiao Tao’s head: “Study, study! Among the five of us, you are the most unstable! Just do as your brother Feng says! Go and release the hawk honestly tomorrow!”

“Oh!” Xiao Tao didn’t dare to show off in front of his father. He rubbed his head and agreed to the arrangement.

After briefly discussing tomorrow’s plan to go into the mountains and eating and drinking their fill, everyone went home early to rest.

As for Yue Feng, the hunting gene in his mind was completely activated. When he lay on the kang and closed his eyes, he could see the scene of howling mountains and forests, just like a fisherman trying to catch fish early the next day. He could not fall asleep at all the night before.

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